Grants

More information about Research Grants

A Finnish Dental Association Apollonia member can apply for a congress grant (formerly a travel grant) for an international scientific congress, symposium, or meeting at which they will give an oral presentation, poster, invited presentation, or chairmanship. Only one Congress grant per poster may be awarded. In exceptional cases, a grant may be awarded for working group work at a symposium where the applicant is, for example, the Finnish representative.

Congress grants may be awarded every two years. In 2024, a Congress grant may be awarded to a recipient of a Congress grant (formerly a travel grant) in 2022 or earlier.

The Congress Grant is intended to cover the costs of participation fees, travel and accommodation. In addition, the Congress grant may be used under certain conditions to cover the costs of producing a poster. The maximum amount of the grant is €1200 for travel to the Nordic countries or Europe and €2000 for travel outside Europe. The Congress grant must be applied for before the trip.

Application deadlines and processing dates in 2024

Applications submitted by 10 October will be considered at the Board meeting on 10 October 2024.

Applications submitted by 3 December 2024 will be considered at the Board meeting on 12 December 2024.

Applications for grants are made through the Apollonia online grant system. New users will be registered as users of the grants system for the first time. In the grant system, the applicant’s user ID is the applicant’s email address in the Apollonia membership register. The new system will advise you on how to create a password.

Statement on the Congress Grant
The grant recipient should make a statement for the congress grant within three months after the trip in the grant system on the Statement sub-page. The awarded grant will be paid once the recipient has completed the declaration. The statement of expenses must specify all the costs and include the receipts as an attachment. These expenses can include the participation fee, travel, and accommodation expenses. Certain poster printing costs may also be paid. Meals and daily allowances will not be paid.

Suppose a Congress grant has been awarded to present a poster. In that case, the study’s results are requested to be presented at the Hammaslääkäräpäivät of the same year or the following year at the latest.

Give Apollonia’s science editor a news tip for the magazine!
As the latest scientific achievements are often presented at international congresses and events, the Finnish Dental Association Apollonia scientific office hopes to receive one or even several news tips from the recipients of the Congress grant.
In addition to the news item, please provide a short justification as to why this or these topics would be important or good news items. We would also welcome clear and accurate information on the recent research article(s) that have informed the coverage of the topic at the event.

Finnish Dental Society Apollonia members can apply for a scholarship (2,000 €) to cover the costs of the doctoral thesis. From 1.7.2021, the grant application can be submitted as soon as the faculty approves the thesis and the date has been decided. The application must be submitted via the Apollonia online grant system within one month of the date of the doctoral thesis.

The application must accompany a dissertation review in Finnish and a photograph for publication. You do not need to submit a statement for the thesis grant afterwards.

Instructions for writing a dissertation review:

The review length should be between 2,500 and 3,000 characters, including spaces. Use font size 12 and line spacing 2.

Use a font size of 12 × 12 cm and a font size of 12 × 12 cm. Present only the main methods, results and conclusions. Detailed referencing of the study is not necessary. At the end of the text, mention the institution where the dissertation was carried out.

Include your audience in the review. The majority of the readers of the Journal of Dentistry are dentists in clinical practice. Consider how your research topic is relevant to them. How will the information gained from this research benefit patients or clinicians now or potentially in the future?

Title your review. The title of your dissertation is not usually appropriate for the title of your review. The main title should be clear, succinct and attractive to read. There is no need for subheadings.

Please include the following information in the body of the text: original title of the thesis, date and place of the thesis, names and titles of the opponent, editor, pre-reviewers and supervisors, and their positions.

Please also include the address for the dissertation’s online publication.

A photograph of the doctoral candidate should be sent as a JPG or TIFF image file, cropped as desired. The minimum image size is 200 kb.

Dissertation reviews in the field of dentistry are published in the Suomen Hammaslääkärilehti. Other dissertations by Apollonia members are published at the editorial board’s discretion.

Grant applicants must submit a printed doctoral thesis by post to the Apollonia office (Apollonia, Bulevardi 30 B 5, 00120 Helsinki). The doctoral candidate is responsible for ensuring that the printed dissertation is delivered to Apollonia’s office (including sufficient postage).

Applications are made online using a Grant System. Your user name in the grant system is your email address in the Apollonia membership register. The system will advise you on how to create a password.

If you have not used the grant system before, you should register as a user for the first time.